OT: How old are you ?

DocShane · #1 December 20th, 2001, 05:00 AM

I am a 33 year old family physician in Scottsburg, Indiana. A bunch of lawyers on SEIV! Any malpractice lawyers out there? I would love to go head to head against you in a game of SEIV. Just think of it as therapy. You can act out fantasies of death and destruction Online. It would be therapeutic for me. Just drop me a line. Hehe.

I have played most of the Avalon Hill, etc... bookshelf games. Shoot, I cut my teeth on Star Fleet Battles. I used to play PBEM about 7 years ago. I couldn't believe it when I saw Mephistos posting for a web site. I thought the game died out years ago. Now I am going to have to go to the basement tonight and see if I can find those tattered and worn boxes of rulebooks and counters! Thanx.

Growltigga · #2 December 20th, 2001, 10:54 AM

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Originally posted by Shyrka:

That would be a nice file to share.

No worries, tell me how I do it and I will post it on the board. I am currently up to 255 names (the max size of galaxy I seem to able to get SE IV to take).

Talking about Starfleet Battles, has anyone done ship sets/new races for Gorn, Kzinti, Lyran and the lesser known Trek races. I see the main ones have been done (and very nice too).

Talking about boardgames, if any one you want a board game that is very much like SEIV, Starfire is the definately the closest match I have seen.

Talking about lawyers, there are probably so many off us on the forum as we are nice, sociable, well adjusted individuals

Zarix · #3 December 20th, 2001, 03:18 PM

Hey Balifis! I'm from Finland too. I thought that I was the only one who plays SE4 in Finland.

Growltigga · #4 December 20th, 2001, 03:24 PM

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Originally posted by Zarix:
Hey Balifis! I'm from Finland too. I thought that I was the only one who plays SE4 in Finland.

Your not, a mate of mine (Jaako Kaivonnen) plays SEIV. He is in Helsinki but I havn't seen him on the forums yet.

Tampa_Gamer · #5 December 20th, 2001, 04:06 PM

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Originally posted by Growltigga:
Also a naval history buff so spend a fair chunk of time on the game coming up with names for the various classes of ships I design - sad but I do get perverse pleasure from designing Agamemnon class battlecruiser, Tigris class destroyers etc

Ack, I thought I was the only one who did this! I spent several hours creating a hybrid form (based on UK and US naval/aircraft) of designations for my ships and units so that I could easily tell (1) their purposes, and (2) which model (i.e. how obsolete) they were. I guess I am anal retentive too!

-TG

Growltigga · #6 December 20th, 2001, 04:15 PM

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Originally posted by Tampa_Gamer:

Ack, I thought I was the only one who did this! I spent several hours creating a hybrid form (based on UK and US naval/aircraft) of designations for my ships and units so that I could easily tell (1) their purposes, and (2) which model (i.e. how obsolete) they were. I guess I am anal retentive too!

-TG

fun though isn't it - I do the same thing, DD = Destroyer, DDE = Escort Destroyer, DDX = Destroyer (with a heavy weapon), DDF = Fleet support destroyer and so on

Re name classes, I stick to good old English Napoleonic/WWI/WWII class names - bit of a pain up the derriere though when for example, us English only built so many Tigris class vessels and I need names for a dozen more

Dunno about you, but I kind of think it adds a bit of realism to the game

Curious though, what is the largest number of ships anyone has had in their empire? I am up to 183 and wonder if anyone has got to insanely large numbers

Shyrka · #7 December 21st, 2001, 03:18 AM

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Originally posted by Growltigga:

No worries, tell me how I do it and I will post it on the board. I am currently up to 255 names (the max size of galaxy I seem to able to get SE IV to take).

You can post a message here with an URL pointing to your file. That's all. Thanks!